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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>in Archi (Nakh-Daghestanian), kor
(the imperfective of kos ‘hear’) means “yes, agree,
understand, will do” – but only in the “first person” (quotes
here because Archi verbs do not agree in person), i.e. when I say to somebody
“kor” it means roughly “yes”. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>but “tuw kor” (he hear.IPF)
means “he hears” and nothing else </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Russian verb slushat’sja ‘obey’
is (historically) a reflexive of slushat’ ‘hear, listen to’
(imperfective) </span></font></p>
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